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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: whitewater on September 23, 2012, 08:57:16 AM
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Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or what you do when printing reversables on an auto..red/white lacrosse jerseys..2 color front 1 color back on both sides 150ct.
I had a system on my manual but it was wicked slow..normal concerns with ink on platen...
maybe 230 screen? but i will need a bit of pressure for the white poly ink to clear the screen, and will that make it go through the mesh onto the platen?
another topic...i am learning and seeing where retensionable will benefit printing, just for screen tension...
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Keeping the pallets hot will reduce pickup when loading/unloading. We flash between every print just for that reason. I wouldn't use a 230 though with the poly. I think we changed the pallet tape after every 50 or so, but I could be wrong. It's still slow, but much faster on the auto.
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Very slow to run...also this was before I knew about Tekbond adhesive and used the spray. (Yuk!)
For us, the best method was on a manual and involved tearing newspapers into sheets just bigger than the print. (free) Also back in the day the inkjet films I bought had paper separators. I always kept them for scrap...they worked well also.
Tack the pallet and apply a sheet of newspaper/paper where the print would be.
Then tack that lightly...just enough to barely hold the garment...print...pull and cure.
Lay a new sheet of newspaper over the first one. This covered any ink that passed through to the shirt board...again, just enough tack to hold the garment...print...pull.
After a few prints, maybe 5 or 6, the newspaper will pull up in one layer...all but the bottom sheet, discard in trash and continue on.
We tried parchment, teflon, etc...this was by far the cheapest and fastest for us at the time...
Hope this helps...
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We do a crap load o these mostly black/white and red/white. White imprint 110-150 all others we run 150-200. We flash everything before taking off which cures the ink on the pallets. After 75-100 prints (you will notice the imprimt quality change) we pull off, turn the print heads off but leave flash on keeping the press cycling. We scrape the cured ink off the pallets, most of time it will peal off like a transfer then start running. We can usually get the ink off once around.
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We do a crap load o these mostly black/white and red/white. White imprint 110-150 all others we run 150-200. We flash everything before taking off which cures the ink on the pallets. After 75-100 prints (you will notice the imprimt quality change) we pull off, turn the print heads off but leave flash on keeping the press cycling. We scrape the cured ink off the pallets, most of time it will peal off like a transfer then start running. We can usually get the ink off once around.
we did them just like this, now I prefer to let the guy down the street do them.
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We do a crap load o these mostly black/white and red/white. White imprint 110-150 all others we run 150-200. We flash everything before taking off which cures the ink on the pallets. After 75-100 prints (you will notice the imprimt quality change) we pull off, turn the print heads off but leave flash on keeping the press cycling. We scrape the cured ink off the pallets, most of time it will peal off like a transfer then start running. We can usually get the ink off once around.
bink, that what i was thinking of doing.. I scrape it off with a on the manual..
i was thinking of using the revolver mode.. printing the garment and then set it for a once go around with no jerseys on it to flash the ink..then before the print quality canoes scrape it off..
thanks everyone for your help and ideas!
Rob
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If you flash everything while running you wont get wet ink on the hems either when loading or pulling off. We run 3-5k of them at least every quater and everyone dreads it. We tried a few things, even tried adding 4 or 5 layers of pallet cove and peal off when covered in ink but keep going back to the scraping. IMO it the fastest way.
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We use transfer paper. Pull paper and all off and run through the dryer.
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we scrape the pallets on the fly with a metal 3" scraper i picked up at lowes. it works great and we dont have to deal with pellon under neath.
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Would it be quicker / cleaner to make transfers then heat press them? I just got an order for revesable pennies and was thinking of going the xfer route
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Would it be quicker / cleaner to make transfers then heat press them? I just got an order for revesable pennies and was thinking of going the xfer route
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I dont know about quicker but cleaner YES
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Would it be quicker / cleaner to make transfers then heat press them? I just got an order for revesable pennies and was thinking of going the xfer route
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I use 'em whenever appropriate